On 2 May 2013 14:57, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> On 2 May 2013 14:31, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 02:15:46PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> >> On 15 April 2013 18:36, Anders Logg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > We still get user questions on Launchpad and questions have started to
>> >> > appear on the new mailing list.
>> >> >
>> >> > I suggest we try to move the user questions (or a subset of them) to
>> >> > stackexchange as quickly as possible.
>> >> >
>> >> > We need to write a short list of instructions for what kinds of
>> >> > questions and discussion should go to which place.
>> >> >
>> >> > Here's a starting point:
>> >> >
>> >> > (1) scicomp.stackexchange: user questions
>> >> >
>> >> > - user question: how do I do <foo> in FEniCS?
>> >> > - user question: what is a stable method for <foo> (in FEniCS)?
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Looks good. We should
>> >>
>> >> (a) encourage the posting of short but complete code when appropriate
>> >> (b) the formulation of precise questions
>> >> (c) reporting of FEniCS versions for code problems/extracts
>> >>
>> >> > (2) this mailing list: announcements and discussions
>> >> >
>> >> > - announcements: workshops, releases, tutorials, new mailing list
>> >> > - discussion of new features
>> >> > - discussion of development practices
>> >> > - discussion of releases
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Sounds good.
>> >>
>> >> > (3) issue on Bitbucket: bugs and feature requests
>> >> >
>> >> > - bug reports
>> >> > - feature requests
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Good, although it might be best that non-trivial feature requests are
>> >> first discussed on [email protected], and moved to Bitbucket
>> >> once a general concept is agreed.
>> >>
>> >> > (3) comments on Bitbucket: comments on commits
>> >> >
>> >> > - developer comments on commits
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I really like this.
>> >>
>> >> > (?) where should this go?
>> >> >
>> >> > - installation issue: can't build on Mac OS X
>> >> > - installation issue: boost link error
>> >> > - installation issue: can't find packages for Ubuntu 13.04
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Maybe a [email protected] list?
>> >
>> > That name seems to indicate all user questions should go there when we
>> > really want a subset of them to go to stackexchange. But I can't think
>> > of a better name (fenics-installation, fenics-build, fenics-support?).
>> >
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Maybe fenics-support? But it might sound a bit like a paid support service.
>
> How bout naming it fenics-support but making clear on the web page
> what to expect (that it's not a paid service)?
>

OK with me.

Garth

> --
> Anders
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